The word "gospel" is a compound word that simply means, the "good-news" to you dear reader, and also this refers singularly to the good news that Jesus Christ has made peace between our pure and holy God (our Father) and a sinful and fallen mankind (us); that we, being wholly depraved in our own humanness, who are completely incapable of altering our own hearts toward this type of purity. So that we can stand in the holy presence of God Himself, with a new heart and with no condemnation at all (none what so ever) placed in our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus. Wow, that is really good news - that all of this is to be found only in Him

Many people have said that they have tried all that before, and it did not work for them, or just simply that they know of some other way (maybe even a better way) to achieve true access to god. Possibly some religion, that can help them to move toward god in any way. They may have actually invested a lot of effort, time, study time of many things and also their ability into that type of pursuit, but unfortunately, that is not actually true, nor is it at all consistent with who we are as human beings on this earth. The true promise we have from God is that there is not one who is able to reach that type of holiness by our own doing. We can trust God for certain, but deceitfulness will always abound in different forms where our enemies are previlent and allowed in.

You will see
and hear a lot of things on the Internet today, from your own friends and family; and even from men and women professing to be pastors or religious in some way. There is such
a vast array of confusing information that is available to us through this and other present media, some of this information is actually very true and accurate, which
can really help us and then there is that which is filled with all kinds of lies and the falsehoods
that can severely damage us. All the information that is given and received in our minds has to be sifted
as to its truthfulness and accuracy. We then must discern its accuracy
and usefulness to our soul; by assessing all of the messages details and information thoroughly, as to its
origination (authorship); we do this by and from its authority given in our lives, and its authorship by credibility. The
real question is: who or by what authority, grants me the right
to speak these truths to you and your family with such a surety and firm certainty; to
command the gospel message with an absolute authority? The answer to this is: The Lord God almighty, (our Heavenly Father) who has created us all from nothing (dirt); called some of us out of the grave that we have made of our lives and then subsequently, has caused us to be born again; by removing us from the power of darkness and then placing us in the kingdom of Light, in His Son. For we have been given this new life by the power of the Holy Spirit of truth, and have been redeemed by the grace provided by Jesus Christ Himself on the cross. Furthermore, God has gifted and commissioned
me, as well as all other true believers, that desire to glorify His precious name (character) as His ambassadors, to share the truth of this salvation with all mankind and to diligently share His love by word and my deeds with whomever
has been given an ear to hear this message and the heart to respond to the truth of the gospel. This message of the need of all mankind for a Saviour; to be rescued from all of our sins; and for the love of God that was clearly shown by Him in sending Jesus Christ to fully accomplish that on
our behalf (by grace through faith) in the only begotten Son of
God, dying for us - in our place, and for taking our penalty upon Himself. The origination, and the true authorship of this gospel are from God the Father Himself, and the
authority and credibility are from His own words; this precious gospel truth
that He has revealed to all of us in His holy bible (scriptures).

For
our God, out of His great kindness and love for us, had determined
from before the world began to draw certain persons to Himself.
This is not an exclusive club or an organization that you can
sign up for, or to be joined, or even that you can be such a good person as to attain to
a humanly acceptable standard to be admitted. God
chooses those whom He determines and gives them unique desire
that then leads a person to Himself; He gives them desires that cannot be
truly fulfilled anywhere in this life except through a real and intimate
relationship with Himself. How could you know if this is happening to you, that God is leading
you to an intimate relationship with Him today? For
those who are reading this message and have a sincere desire to
know Him, to seek and to love Him, who realize their own faults and desire to repent of their sins, to be cleansed and forgiven
from all sin, to obey His commandments and to be reconciled
to God through Jesus Christ His Son, this is the best
news of all; for if that truly is your desire, that means the
Holy Spirit is drawing you and that your life is about to change in many ways,
for the good news of your life will continue to get better and
better for you and all those around you.

This
absolute truth of the good news that I am sharing with you today, goes
out from us to everyone who will listen and respond to it. Absolutely everyone alive
on this earth needs to hear the truth of the good news, but only very few will unfortunately listen and be able to hear and respond to the call. God has
made it very clear to me in the bible that not many of you will
hear the good news of His love for you, and respond with a willing
heart as to be saved from your impending doom. For all those who
resist His grace in this gospel, will rightly be judged by God,
solely on their own merit (by their deeds) and will certainly spend an eternity in a lake
of fire. This "eternal lake of fire", is as real as
it is forever; with a full sense of the wrath of almighty God, what will seem like
physical pain and suffering, with an absence of God's loving mercy
to shorten it's time or even soften the punishment or penalty of the sin and rebellion against Him. The persons that cannot or will not hear these words of hope are not now starting to rebel against Him, but they were always in a state of rebellion and it is just a glimps of this revelelation to them and others that our God is not present in them to do differently

It is my earnest
hope and desire that you will carefully
consider the gospel truth. That you will not only hear
and understand it clearly, but that you will hear and then respond to the gospel
of God's grace and be saved from the impending doom that awaits
all who will reject His love. If this is the way you truly
feel about God, for He is the only One who can change your heart
and give you a sincere desire to love Him. If you ever have had any
such desire to know anything about God, about His love for you or anything
at all about His holy character, then please e-mail me at deckman1963@gmail.com,
because I would just love to be able to assist you with that information and alot more as we learn to walk together through this fabulous life.

If,
on the other hand, you are reading this message and you are absolutely
positive that you have no such desire to seek or to love God, no desire to
repent of your sins, no desire to be forgiven from these sins,
no desire to submit to Jesus Christ as Lord and you have no true desire
to be reconciled to your God (the one true and living God, who
has created you and has shown love to you), then unfortunately, there will
be no good news for you. For, those who reject God's call,
those who ignore and deny God's presence and those who act as
if He does not exist, or even think that there are all kinds of gods, then they will remain as enemies of God and the bad news of this truth ("for even though they knew Him to be God, they did not honor Him as God") in their own lives will only
get worse and worse as time goes on. That too is also a promise that we have from God's word.

Good
News about God's love for all of us

To
get an accurate understanding of the good news of the gospel,
we will first need to start with who God
is, what He has done, our relationship to Him and the bad
news of our separation from Him as a result of our sinful condition
before Him. God's character is absolutely limitless; like the
stars of the heavens, like the limitless galaxies and space that
continues on forever and ever - as far as our eyes or our biggest
and most powerful telescopes can see and then an eternity beyond
that. Our God created all things;
namely the heavens and the earth so that He could accurately represent
just how vast and limitless His character is and to help us to better
understand who He is, His wonderful plan for us and what He has
done for us. It would take us literally an eternity to even get
close to understanding His character in its fullness. Let us get
started by laying out some basic attributes that He has revealed
to us so that we may have an accurate working knowledge of who
He is moving forward. Our God is sovereign;
which means that He is in control of all things, He guides and
directs all things to accomplish His sovereign purpose. God works
out all things, great and small as He wishes.

Our
God is eternal;
that is, in His essence and nature, He is immortal - He has always
been in existence, from all eternity past and He will continue
to be in existence through all eternity future. God has no beginning
and no end - He has no equil, for there is noone like Him. Our God is the self existent
One; that is, He exists solely by His own power, a power
that never diminishes - no one made God, for He always was and
is the One who created all things; all the things we can see and the
things that we can't see. Our God is omnipotent;
which means He is the source of all power, for He controls and
maintains all things in perfect order by the might of His power
- having unlimited authority and influence over the things which
He has made. Our God is omnipresent;
which means His presence is everywhere at all times - He is present
in all places at all times. Although, even the vast space He has created
cannot contain the fullness of His true presence. Our
God is omniscient; which means He knows all things - having
an infinite awareness, knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insight
of all things before their existence, in their present existence
and all things still future.

Our
God is one God,
and He alone is God, for there were no gods before Him and there
will be no gods after Him. He is the beginning and the end of
all things, He determines the limits of all things and He is the purpose of all things - He alone determines when we are
born, when we will die, where we will live, even the most intimate
little details of our lives and relationships. Although being one God, He has revealed Himself in three eternally
distinct persons. The three persons are still of only one
nature and essence, one God in three persons - we may not fully
grasp and understand these truths but God has given us sufficient grace
to apprehend Him. We can only apprehend what He has revealed to
us, namely that He is a holy Trinity: as God
the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. We will
not touch on all of God's attributes here, but we will continue
to acknowledge additional attributes as they directly relate to
the good news of the gospel, as we go. Our
God is holy and pure; which means He is completely set
apart from all that is human, natural and impure. He is wholly without
defilement, without any type of flaw and without impurity in all the intentions
of His heart, His thoughts and His actions are pure in all He does. He is our actual standard
of measure in all things, for in this we know what is holy and pure by what God says
and by what He does.

Our
bad news starts here;
for He created each and every one of us to glorify His holy name
and to enjoy Him forever; that we would be an accurate
representation of His character to all those who are on
this earth. So that any person, by examining our lives, what they
can see and ascertain of our own thoughts, intentions and our actions; our character as a whole; could look at our lives and get a
pretty good idea or glimps of what God's character is like. This witness
of who we are, should accurately represent a small picture of
who He is and what He has done in our lives. This is His will
for our lives. To accomplish His will in us, God has written His
law upon our hearts, so that we would know what to do to be an
accurate example of who He is. And He has placed into each one
of us an understanding of His invisible attributes, namely His
eternal power and His divine nature. These attributes are clearly
seen, being understood through what He has made, so that we are
without excuse. He also gave us the light of conscience; His Holy
Spirit striving within our hearts to do good, directing us to abide by His
law (His attributes which are written in a code as His law) and
then He is convicting us of sinful desires when we attempt to
defy that law in our own selfishness and our evil desires.

This is really bad news for us. For in this body, which is decaying day by day, we continually deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something that we are really not. We know that we go against His law and the leading of our own conscience, but we still tend to convince ourselves that we are mostly good. But the fact is, that we are only adhering to our own personal and human standards, and not even doing that as well as we would like to do. We truly believe that we have freewill in this life, but instead of choosing to do good (God's will) over our own sinful and selfish choices (our own will), we find ourselves choosing one sinful desire over another. In summary, we knew what was right and true and good, we were further directed by His Holy Spirit how to do the right thing and how to avoid sinful thoughts and behavior, but were both collectively and independently unwilling to obey His leading. In a willful act of defiance to God's will (rebellion), we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We find ourselves at this point, completely incapable of accurately representing His holiness, purity or any other of His true attributes. We find ourselves in a state of total depravity - absolute inability to do His will and no way to change our own hearts before a holy God without His help.

Actually, He is the only one who will be able to do good in and through us to His glory. Even when God shows His mercy on us and starts to draw us by His Holy Spirit toward Himself, we start seeking to love Him at some level, having been given a desire to obey His law, but we find ourselves to be incapable of obeying His will in our own strength. We try our best to fulfill the desires that have been placed in us by attempting to do good, but we find all the more that we are enslaved by our failures as we continue to make decisions driven by selfish motives. We find ourselves broken and crushed in spirit, grieved and mourning our sinful choices - this too is a gracious gift from God Himself. For, none of us on our own accord, could ever see spiritual things clearly without God opening our eyes and ears to the truth. This is allowed by God so that we will be able to experience our own inability to choose correctly in our humanness. We acknowledge what the scripture says, "that we are dead in our transgressions and sins". So that it becomes clear to us that the power to make right choices, to love Him and to obey His law cannot come from within us, but it must be initiated from outside of ourselves - that it must come from God Himself.

Our
God is righteous and just; which indicates that He rightly
blesses all of our good thoughts, intentions and acts of obedience
to His divine will. The blessing for a heart of obedience includes
intimate fellowship and communion with God Himself, a portion
in His divine nature and an inheritance of all that He is for
all eternity; which makes our reward as limitless as His character.
This also means that He rightly pronounces a just and accurate
punishment for all evil and bad thoughts, intentions and actions
of disobedience to His will. These are just some of His
attributes, of righteousness and justice, and these would mandate that His
wrath is active against such sin, evil and wickedness. He has rightly
determined that the penalty for sin is death. The penalty of sin
is experienced in both physical and spiritual death; for we will
all one day physically die, this body of ours is slowly fading
away and will one day fail us completely. In our sin, we experience
the spiritual death as we are enslaved to a life of sin and death,
unable to discern spiritual things and that we are outside of
His grace, we are incapable of responding to any spiritual stimulus
- "absolute inability".

Once
clarity sets in and we see the truth for just a brief moment,
that is, God's perfect standard of measure (the law of God) and
our absolute inability to attain to the true standard, we are
left crushed under the weight of guilt and shame from making one
poor choice after another until it completely overwhelms us. Our
God is loving and kind; which is identified in that He
loves us too much to leave us in this desperate state of "absolute
inability" without a remedy for our sin. For His divine love is
not merely a feeling or an emotion, like human love, to make us
feel better about our sin, but is active and purposeful. True
divine love, a love that is from God, is a choice of the persons own will to sacrifice oneself to fulfill and meet a need in someone
else's life (to love ones own neighbor as he loves himself). So God, our Father,
has given of Himself to provide a remedy for our sinful condition in this same way,
by sending His only begotten Son Jesus to die on a cross, on our behalf (as a substitute) and
to fulfill the righteous requirement of death as a perfect and
sinless substitute for us. In this propitiation, this substitute must
be pure, blameless and completely without sin. What we need is
a Saviour, who will pay our debt in full and free us from our
current slavery to sin and death; who will make peace with God
on our behalf. God has sent Jesus Christ to be that perfect and
righteous substitute, He is our one and only Saviour.

Our God is merciful; which is evidenced
in His desire to keep us safe from the penalty of the wrath to
come; all of which we certainly deserved. Mercy deals strictly
with our miserable condition and the suffering we are now facing,
and the future judgment we will rightly receive for sin. God was
pleased to do this, for it was predetermined before time, so we
could accurately see His love on display in fullest measure. There
is no greater love than this, to lay down one's life for His friend. Jesus Christ, God the Son, took on
a human nature (He was fully God and yet fully man), a nature
like ours, He was born of a virgin, He lived the sinless life
that we could never live and He showed us how to submit to God,
trust God and how to live the Christian life in love for others.
In love, Jesus kept entrusting Himself to God and endured suffering
on our behalf, He even suffered and died on a cross to pay our
sin debt. He was buried and on the third day rose from the dead, conquering sin and death for good,
once and for all. That anyone who trusts in this substitutionary
atonement, who places faith in His death on our behalf - as payment
for their sins, and surrenders their own live to Christ Jesus
as Lord and the Master of their life, would be saved.

This
truly is the good news for us who have believed. Our God is gracious;
for it was God's grace (unmerited favor) to give us this faith as a
free gift; also in giving us a free gift of eternal life by this faith
in Jesus Christ our Lord, which we do not deserve. We cannot earn
forgiveness by something that we have done in righteousness, but
it is the free gift from God, by trusting in what Jesus Christ
has already done for us by faith. Our God
is Lord of all; Jesus Christ is Lord of all who live. As we respond
to God in trusting Jesus Christ as our Saviour, and in the hope
of forgiveness, the Holy Spirit regenerates our lifeless spirit
to believe Him by faith. This is the turning point of our entire
lives, as the Holy Spirit of promise comes to dwell within our
hearts to give us the power to obey God. We then trust Him and submit
solely to His lordship in our lives; as we could not gain forgiveness
on our own, so we cannot repent of sins on our own either. God
grants us repentance from sin as we respond to His transforming
power. This power takes us from the darkness and places us into
His marvelous light, from death to life and from being slaves
of sin to being slaves of His righteousness. We now are given a desire to obey
Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives.

Our
God is generous;
which means that His lovingkindness endures forever. This is identified
by all the free gifts that He so abundantly lavishes upon us;
for by grace, you have been saved, through faith, and this is
not by your own works, but is the free gift of God. This gift
of life, that lasts forever; and better yet, this eternal life
that is ours in Christ Jesus, is spent with Him, in His presence.
So we see that His mercy was a gift, grace was a gift, faith was
a gift and also salvation is a free gift because He loves us and
would not leave us without a remedy for sin. How do we get these
free gifts that God was so pleased to offer us? All those who
have the Son of God have life, and all those who do not have the
Son of God, will never see life. We get all these gifts from God
the Father, in and through God the Son, and all this happens by
and through the power of God the Holy Spirit.

Salvation
is a free gift of God to all those who believe this gospel, when
we submit ourselves to Him and seek Him alone for repentance from
sin.
We believe Him by faith; we believe by faith that Jesus Christ
is God, that He died for our sins as the holy and blameless substitute
on our behalf and that He rose from the grave victorious over
sin and death. From the moment we believe God by faith, the rest
of our lives will be lived by and through faith; for
the righteous shall live by faith.

Our
God is a Saving God and He is our Lord; We now have the
ability by the power of the Holy Spirit to carry out the will
of our Father, through submission and obedience to Jesus Christ
our Lord. We will not always carry out His will perfectly, although
our desire to obey Him in fuller measure will increase day by
day as we focus on the eternal things of our God instead of the temporal
things of this earth. We were drawn by God, through the ministry
of the Holy Spirit, who gave us a desire to love God and to obey
His commandments. We came to the end of our own resources, and
found ourselves unable to accomplish His will in our own strength (or) by our own will. Led by the Holy Spirit, we cry out for God's
help; He regenerates us to a newness of life and then gives us a new
heart, a heart that can respond to the gospel
by faith. All of salvation happens by His will, through
His power, by His choosing and on His own timetable. We are but recipients
of God's gracious and merciful love for us.

Romans
9: 16
- So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who
runs, but on God who has mercy.

If
God has show His mercy on you today, giving you a desire to know
Him and the willingness to surrender your life to Him, and to
seek His kindness to lead you to repentance, then we want to help
you to grow in the faith. He has saved us for His own purposes.
He has given you gifts of the Holy Spirit to enable you to carry
out those purposes in the church; to share the truth of the gospel
with the lost and to build up the body of Christ as you fellowship
with the saints. It is imperative that you seek this fellowship
with a body of believers who know and obey God's word (the bible),
who will help to disciple you in the truth and are accurate examples
of His character. If you have experienced His love for you today,
then you will want to thank Him in prayer. Prayer is simply talking
with God, sincerely and honestly from your heart. You can communicate
with God anywhere and at all times, with whatever is on your heart.
He desires to have intimate fellowship with you and He also desires
that you have intimate fellowship with other believers - His saints.

If
you have questions about the gospel that I have shared with you today or you need assistance finding a sound biblical church so that
you can have true fellowship (unity) with other believers, please e-mail us at deckman1963@gmail.com or call me at (303) 730-9642. It is my sincere desire that your
life is completely changed by this gospel; it is the power of God for
salvation.